The Magical Battle of Britain Author:Dion Fortune Immediately following Britain's declaration of war in 1939, Dion Fortune, founder of one of the world's foremost magical orders - The Society of The Inner Light - began a series of weekly letters to members of her fraternity, who were unable to hold meetings due to wartime travel restrictions. With the enemy planes rumbling overhead, she set... more » about organising a series of visualisations intended to formulate 'seed ideas in the group mind of the race', a set of archetypal visions to stimulate the protection of British sovereignty and the renewal of national and international accord and cooperation. For the first time the Society's doors were opened to anyone who wanted to join in these meditations and learn the previously secret methods of esoteric mind-working. 'The war has to be fought and won on the physical plane,' she wrote, 'before physical manifestation can be given to the archetypal ideals. What was sown will grow and bear seed.' With this principle in mind she guided her fraternity through the dark days of the Blitz, continuing her weekly letters even when the bombs fell through her own roof. With an introduction and commentary by Gareth Knight.« less